Local and military police serve a search warrant on a storage locker in Alamogordo on Tuesday, looking for stolen government property. In this photo, personnel count bullets that were removed from the locker. (John Bear/Daily News)

Alamogordo police and U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents on Tuesday seized a storage unit on First Street filled with a cache of military ammunition, weapons and other government property, a police spokesman said.

At the same time as the Alamogordo search, Air Force OSI also served a search warrant on a residence in Las Cruces, with the assistance of the Dona Ana Sheriff's Department, Detective Sgt. Roger Schoolcraft said.

"We're working in partnership with the Air Force," Schoolcraft said. "This an active investigation of an active duty Air Force member who may have been in possession of some military property that has been taken from various military installations. This is a continuing effort to solve these types of cases."

Schoolcraft said Air Force OSI agents seized numerous .223-caliber armor piercing ammunition, military installation signs, a spotting scope and weapons from the Just Store It storage unit at 1600 First St.

"We drafted several search warrants for the storage unit because of it being in our jurisdiction," he said. "Air Force OSI special agents brought in their computer system. They will bring the items of interest out of the storage unit, photograph them, inventory them pursuant to the search warrant and check through the computer system to verify if the items belong to him or to the military."